What a pleasantly amicable settlement of what could have been a thorny issue. I get so used to people trying to abuse patents and trademarks I'm now shocked when they say "Oh, ok, I see what you mean, fine we'll do this differently."
Yea, it's nice to see. Though the cynical side of my brain is thinking that Veber backed down because they knew their customer base is basically all techies and they might not want to piss them off. If Veber was in a different business line and had branded and trademarked let's say their line of high performance tyres, I think they might not have backed down so readily.
Still glad it worked out, Veber deserves credit for that no matter the ultimate motive.
Edit: Guess I'm mistaken, thanks for the correction duskwuff
If the trademark application had been for tyres, the issue wouldn't have arisen at all.
Trademarks are usually registered for a specific category of goods or services -- hence, we can have Monster energy drinks and Monster.com job search and Monster cables all trademarked by different companies, since they're all different categories. The issue here was that Veber was trying to register a "Python" trademark that would have conflicted with the PSF's existing use of the name.
